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The Weekend (2012)
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Original name: Das Wochenende
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Based on a novel by Bernard Schlink (The Reader), The Weekend follows Jens as he leaves prison 18 years after being arrested as an RAF terrorist in Germany. Back with his family, friends, and ex-comrades, including his former lover Inga, Jens’ unexpected arrival disrupts their lives, forcing them to re-examine the violent idealism of their youth, especially as he insists on learning who had betrayed him to the police years before in this intense, gripping drama
Style:
serious, realistic, captivating, suspense, tense
Plot:
friendship, family relations, haunted by the past, betrayal, parents and children, couples, dishonesty, couple relations, life turned upside down, under the surface, terrorism, raf, state terrorism, friends, disorder, siblings relations, reunion
Time:
21st century, contemporary
Place:
germany, europe
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Most similar movies to The Weekend
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, captivating and psychological films with plots about couples, family relations, couple relations, parents and children, family problems, life turned upside down and friendship mostly in Drama and Thriller genres. Some movies like The Weekend: The Police Officer's Wife (2013), The Slap (2015), Home for the Weekend (2012), The Dinner (2014), Small World (2010). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 175 min.
Story:
The story of a young couple who live in a small town with their four-year-old daughter. The husband is so caught up in his work as a policeman that he gradually becomes increasingly alienated from his wife and daughter who become ever closer to one ...
Style:
realistic, serious, psychological, captivating, sexy ...
Plot:
couple relations, accident, family problems, couples, family relations, small town, crumbling marriage, unfulfillment, parents and children, police officer, mother daughter relationship, domestic violence ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
germany
Similarity:
95%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 42 min.
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Story:
A family drama that explodes from one small incident where a man slaps another couple's misbehaving child. This seemingly minor domestic dispute pulls the family apart, exposes long-held secrets, and ignites a lawsuit that challenges the core ...
Style:
tense, serious, realistic, psychological, captivating
Plot:
couples, family problems, infidelity, friendship, suburbs, parents and children, courtroom, society, friends, dishonesty, family in crisis, couple relations ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
92%
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
On the request of his mother Gitte, Marko, who has been living in Berlin for years, drives off to the countryside to visit his parents. His hopes of spending a quiet and relaxing time with his family fall short when Gitte surprises everyone by ...
Style:
sincere, serious, disturbing, suspense, realistic ...
Plot:
mental illness, family relations, parents and children, introspection, estrangement, family problems, dysfunctional family, life is a bitch, housewife, berlin wall, stasi, bittersweet ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
germany, europe
Similarity:
90%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
The Ames' seem to have built the perfect life until their six year old daughter is kidnapped; over the course of seven days they begin to uncover secrets about their past that could rip their marriage and lives apart.
Style:
emotional, serious, realistic, captivating, tense ...
Plot:
kidnapping, uncover truth, family relations, danger, parents and children, under the surface, disorder, life turned upside down, secret, women of color, african american, black girl ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
louisiana, new orleans
Similarity:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Story about two brothers and their wives, and the interactions between them and their two high school age children. When the kids get into serious trouble together, how will the parents relationships change with and among each other? Will the ...
Style:
psychological, serious, realistic, tense, biting ...
Plot:
couples, family in crisis, family gatherings, life turned upside down, family life, parents and children, food, family problems, under the surface, couple relations, siblings relations, disorder ...
Time:
year 2014, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
italy, rome italy
Similarity:
78%
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Germany
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Conrad Lang, a handyman in a rich family - he has been raised like a brother with Thomas, who has the same age -, accidentally puts fire to the big holiday house he keeps. He returns to the town he grew up in, to the family home, where Philippe, ...
Style:
psychological, realistic, serious, captivating, suspenseful ...
Plot:
mental illness, memory loss, investigation, haunted by the past, flashback, family relations, society, family life, amateur detective, friendship, dishonesty, master and servant ...
Place:
france, europe
Similarity:
76%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Juliette was simply not sure about coming to live in this residential suburb of the greater Paris metropolitan area. All the women here are in their forties, have children to raise, houses to keep and husbands who return home late at night.Today she ...
Style:
serious, realistic, suspenseful, suspense, psychological ...
Plot:
suburbs, murder, relationship vs career, family life, couples, family relations, friends, social relations, couple relations, parents and children, suburban life, strong female presence ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
paris france, europe, france
Similarity:
75%
399
Genre: Drama
Country: Switzerland, Germany
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
An affluent city is covered in snow, all seems perfect – on the surface. Divorcé Rolf is doing his best to rebuild his relationship with his daughter. Pregnant Lena appears to be living a faultless family life with her husband and son. Social ...
Style:
serious, realistic, gloomy, sentimental, psychological ...
Plot:
hypocritical woman, christmas, parents and children, couple relations, couples, society, dishonesty, family relations, theft, death, assault, christmas eve ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
switzerland, europe
Similarity:
74%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Ireland, Czech Republic, Slovakia
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Alzbeta and Tina are sisters bound by jealousy and love, an unspoken history hovering over them like a dark cloud. It is this history that compels Alzbeta to refuse Tina's help in finding a better life, until the day arrives that forces them to ...
Style:
psychological, realistic, atmospheric, emotional, touching ...
Plot:
jealousy, sibling relationship, haunted by the past, family relations, envy, betrayal, couples, sister sister relationship, rivalry, au pair, couple relations, siblings relations ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
ireland, slovakia, europe
Similarity:
73%
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
A 48-year-old company chief, Yukihiro Fujiyama (Koji Yakusho) goes to a hospital. There he discovered that he has got terminal lung cancer and will die within half a year. He declines any treatment and decides to go to see some people he has not met ...
Style:
touching, emotional, sentimental, psychological, sincere ...
Plot:
life turned upside down, redemption, friendship, couples, family relations, couple relations, terminal illness, life is a bitch, dealing with death, cancer, illness, relationship problems ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
asia, japan
Similarity:
73%
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
The night before Jack (Gil Bellows) is slated to begin a five-year prison sentence for murder, his wife, Melanie (Jennifer Beals), and assorted siblings gather for a dinner to bid Jack farewell and good luck on his trip up the river. But the party ...
Style:
realistic, emotional, psychological, captivating, dark comedy ...
Plot:
dysfunctional family, family relations, haunted by the past, family problems, estrangement, couple relations, family secret, sibling rivalry, family drama, conflict, parents and children, regret ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
canada
Similarity:
71%
202
Genre: Drama
Country: Belgium
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Teacher Rob Dekoster is a good man, albeit a bit too frivolous and liberal with funds the local arts center's interim director. His wife Nelle, who sometimes abuses drugs, spoils his ingrate teenage stepdaughter Sandy, who is kind only to her ...
Style:
realistic, serious, tense, captivating, thought provoking
Plot:
legal, false accusation, family relations, manipulation, dishonesty, vengeance, couple relations, life is a bitch, youth, rivalry, family problems, parents and children ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
europe, belgium
Similarity:
71%
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
By chance Paul Kromberger discovers on the internet a photograph of the US opera diva Caterina Fabiani who is the spitting image of Evelyn, his dead wife. His unease and growing sense of alarm are transferred to his daughter, Sophie. Filled with ...
Style:
serious, realistic, emotional, touching
Plot:
opera singer, family relations, introspection, performer's life, uncover truth, life turned upside down, artists and showbiz, parents and children, father daughter relationship, brother brother relationship, dead mother, american abroad ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new york, germany, usa
Similarity:
71%
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Belgium, Luxembourg
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
After ten years, Jacques comes back to France to handle his father’s succession. He had left France to live in the USA to escape a painful past he shared with Mado, his former wife, who in the meantime built a new life with Stéphane and their 7 ...
Style:
serious, realistic, sincere, touching, gloomy
Plot:
starting over, family relations, couples, lovers reunited, parents and children, couple relations, death in the family, dead son, loss of child, dealing with death, basement, cemetery ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
europe, france
Similarity:
70%
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 45 min.
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Story:
Drama moving between the lives, loves and lies of two generations of the same family who live at 32 Brinkburn Street in 1931 and 2011.
Style:
realistic, captivating, serious, sentimental, suspense ...
Plot:
attic, couples, society, haunted by the past, family life, family relations, couple relations, family problems, interracial relations, parents and children, step siblings, house ...
Time:
20th century, 1930s
Place:
england, europe
Similarity:
69%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Paul Keller (Steven Pasquale - "Rescue Me") is a hedge fund manager with a gambling problem who is fired after a bad deal costs his firm millions. Shut out of the job market, he and his wife Vicky (Caroline Dhavernas - ...
Style:
realistic, serious, captivating, psychological, emotional ...
Plot:
friendship, gambling, couple relations, prodigy, couples, partner, dishonesty, life turned upside down, character study, fired from the job, addiction, bookies ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
usa, brooklyn new york city, new york
Similarity:
66%
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Alfredo and Susanna are two well-off fifty-year-olds who lead a stimulating cultural life. He is an architect and she is a psychologist; they live in Rome but spend their weekends at their country home in Umbria, where they love to spend their days ...
Style:
serious, realistic, tense, emotional, erotic
Plot:
idealism, life turned upside down, lifestyle, couples, life is a bitch, social differences, hopes, couple relations, family problems, culture clash, parents and children, family life ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
italy, europe
Similarity:
65%
Genre: Drama
Country: China, Hong Kong
Duration: 128 min.
Story:
Drawing on remarkable true stories, Peter Chan delivers a moving drama about child abduction in China. Huang Bo stars as a father whose young son disappears in the streets of a big city. He sets out on a search across China, stopping at nothing to ...
Style:
serious, realistic, touching, tense
Plot:
village, kidnapping, uncover truth, adoption, life turned upside down, parents and children, couples, missing child, danger, couple relations, family problems, family in crisis ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
china
Similarity:
60%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Tsukiko, whose father died before she was born, lives with her mother Yoko and they provide mutual support for each other. One day, Yoko comes home completely drunk with Kenji, a young man with blond hair, and tells Tsukiko, "I'm going to ...
Style:
realistic, sentimental, psychological, captivating, humorous ...
Plot:
family drama, couples, parents and children, family relations, single parent, family problems, male female relationship, mother daughter relationship, love and romance, mother and daughter, relationship problems, rivalry ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
japan, asia
Similarity:
58%
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 78 min.
Story:
Not available
Style:
psychological, tense, serious, suspenseful, realistic ...
Plot:
friendship, terrorism, partner, rivalry, buddies, danger, confined, dishonesty, mind game, betrayal, disorder, isolation ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
italy, europe, sicily
Similarity:
58%
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 151 min.
Story:
Mid-19th-century, Baltic Sea port city of Lubeck, Germany. Follows the fourth generation of the Buddenbrook mercantile family as Tony and Thomas reach the age of marriage. Fatefully impeded every step of the way, the Buddenbrooks struggle as ...
Style:
saga, realistic, costume drama, emotional, captivating ...
Plot:
family relations, family business, fall in love, workplace, society, parents and children, unfulfillment, relationship vs career, victorian england, rivalry, impossible love, friendship ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era
Place:
germany, europe, northern germany
Similarity:
54%
Genre: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
A woman struggles with her son's illness and her husband's infidelity, but, after a chance encounter with an Irish sailor and his son, her life is turned upside down in a love story that defies explanation and breaks all the rules.
Style:
sincere, serious, realistic, emotional, independent film ...
Plot:
hopes, infidelity, coming of age, bittersweet, dishonesty, friendship, parents and children, life turned upside down, child illness, family in crisis, terminal illness, family problems ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
australia, ireland
Similarity:
53%
236
Genre: Drama
Country: Hungary, Netherlands, Ireland, Turkey
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Housewife Katalin Munk (Johanna ter Steege) has her world torn apart when her lecturer husband János (Andor Lukáts) arrives home to tell her that he’s leaving her for a younger student of his. Katalin falls into a state of shock and wanders ...
Style:
realistic, serious, touching, sentimental
Plot:
self discovery, life turned upside down, love affair, couples, family relations, family problems, love and romance, couple relations, fall in love, parents and children, breakup, mental breakdown ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
budapest, istanbul turkey, turkey
Similarity:
53%
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536
Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
An accident overthrows Ernst and Cecilia's well-ordered life. Chance rules in Ernst's rational world while Cecilia is searching for a deeper meaning in what has happened. As they drift further and further apart a mysterious stranger with ...
Style:
serious, touching, realistic, tense, suspenseful ...
Plot:
couple relations, family problems, couples, parents and children, husband wife relationship, father son relationship, thoughtful, life turned upside down, family in crisis, down on your luck, gift, family relations ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
stockholm sweden, eastern europe
Similarity:
53%
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Germany
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
A magistrate investigates a corporate executive.
Style:
serious, suspenseful, realistic, captivating
Plot:
embezzlement, dishonesty, political corruption, legal action, legal investigation, couple relations, law enforcement, couples, disorder, husband wife relationship, investigation, bodyguard ...
Time:
year 2006, 21st century
Place:
france, paris france, europe
Similarity:
52%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Adapting a Dutch bestseller inspired by a shocking real-life crime, Menno Meyjes (screenwriter of The Color Purple and Lionheart) directs this excoriating assessment of Europe’s contemporary social ills.
Style:
psychological, realistic, serious, disturbing, bleak
Plot:
couple relations, restaurant, family relations, life is a bitch, under the surface, family problems, couples, haunted by the past, parents and children, juvenile delinquency, family in crisis, family secret ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
europe, holland
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A group of literature-loving friends bury letters to be opened 10 years later when they will confront the dreams of their youth with what the future has held in store for them.
Style:
serious, atmospheric, realistic, sincere, emotional ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
friendship, life turned upside down, haunted by the past, under the surface, life is a bitch, friends, countryside, writer's life, coming of age, literature, nostalgia, introspection ...
Time:
2010s, future, 21st century
Place:
brazil
Similarity:
50%
104
Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Film examines the matters of labor and love. After losing her job, a single professional woman moves into her friend's flat -- where she develops an attraction to her friend's husband. Meanwhile, the friend finds herself falling for one of ...
Style:
emotional, realistic, serious, captivating
Plot:
love affair, ambition, fall in love, couples, destructive relationship, couple relations, under the surface, dishonesty, relationship vs career, love and romance, thirtysomething life, cheating wife ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
korea, asia
Similarity:
49%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Rusty (Shawn Hatosy) has been bailed out of bad situations more than once by his understanding but distraught mother, Mary (Kelly Lynch). When Mary starts dating a psychologist, Bob (Jeff Goldblum), Rusty connects with the man and begins talking to ...
Style:
serious, realistic, captivating, grim, biting ...
Plot:
friendship, going straight, haunted by the past, dysfunctional family, youth, rehabilitation, parents and children, society, social decay, buddies, family life, boyfriend ...
Time:
year 2003
Similarity:
47%
184
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Michèle shares her life with Paul, her husband and work colleague. She has a lover, Thomas, a musician with whom she has been having a passionate affair for some time. Attracted by Thomass non-conformity and lust for life, Michèle abandons her ...
Style:
serious, realistic, psychological, captivating, gloomy
Plot:
love triangle, breakup, sexual promiscuity, life turned upside down, love affair, family relations, couples, dishonesty, crumbling marriage, infidelity, parents and children, sex ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
canada
Similarity:
47%
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